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... the the ... menthol flavored cigarettes the likely cause a greater health risk than regular ones ... that the drug administration's saying that today the agency ... indicated it may restrict sales in the future how second play out we've got Mike Astral joins us ... right now with the D tells the story he's been involved in the reporting might ... a lot of questions for years about surrounding menthol cigarettes and whether they are more dangerous and wondering what specifically ... did the FDA fine because attack today ... will it not happening yet and it may not have to ... admit to being a very long road over many years now steady from the FDA in two thousand I can look at the question of mental acumen flavored ... cigarettes ... I'm currently allowed under US law ... two years ago in two thousand eleven as a committee come out from the FDA in it I would benefit the public health ... aam if there were no mental to correct the market ... in two years now ... with ESPN has anything ... what did that today was that typically reiterated that initial planning ... and instead of looking for more permission to open for public I'm ... consultation ... I which is sixty days after that nobody does result ... aam and it is very possible ... that a decision would still be months ... not years away from Binghamton to ... say decision with that decision about possibly two of regulation or tighter regulation of menthol cigarettes specifically ... yet Apple Yemen that's what they're looking at whether or not to come with restrictions on the sale of the mental picture of that can run the gamut of ... restricting the amount of fat men so and the euro ... to without restrictions on marketing ... Amen to that right right and I think most people think an outright ban any time in the near term ... it is highly unlikely ... but if something and looking at ... and at some point they will come out with a proposal ... at which point they'll be another round series of back and forth with the industry ... and to ban public response and ... handed it could eventually if they were to try to really crack down on menthol ... and given that the roughly twenty five billion dollar industry ... aam you can see from the tobacco companies that are too Lorillard which is the largest mental ... time to accompany us to take to court ... it did the FDA is basically getting banned the use of all flavors except for menthol why is the issue of what to do about menthol so controversy oh my ... the kid that don't take it on the other about who won an almost one and three smokers to us that the cigarette smokers smoke menthol cigarettes ... ALM so that it has been a much larger market share than any other in a type of flavor to care for good ... aam and the tobacco companies to show menthol cigarettes are due ... aam and the FDA agreed ... that for somebody not to menthol cigarette that is no more harmful ... aam in terms of that doctors are given regular cigarettes some to the bar pretty high for regulating the argument that the FDA is making and mental critics are making it ... that that ... mental flavoring ... aam ... I've ... that the speed after the heightened initiation and I especially among younger smokers ... aam ... and that being a gateway to cigarettes aam ... the argument being that ... the mental flavoring ... is it has a cooling effect it stopped and the harshness of tobacco flavor ... so the argument being ... done to her at some point you might be will find others to correct the entryway ... to ensure way it might just be more addictive isn't fair to say that my ... that's what the FDA saying that the research until now aam suggests that I'm the one of the studies that they pointed to it down ... research showing that I'm you know it from the week up in smoke or ... if it had to stay there menthol cigarette smoker ... they tend to have their first woke up more quickly which in the first five minutes of waking up and ... then a non menthol